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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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There's actually a lot of activity around rxvt forks in general, so rxvt's not quite dead [yet].
However, you're right; there's not much by way of rigorous secturity auditing. To be honest, though, I'm not too concerned about the quality of the cade, as it's proven to be pretty robust and pretty simple (it's a pretty bare wrapper around whatever shell it's providing). Given my use case (running it as a terminal on my local machine behind the network's firewall and behind my computer's local firewall), I feel it's a relatively safe bet.
Thanks! And yeah, not just the beauty of UNIX - the beauty of UNIX *one-liners*. It's amazing!